Hi Ming-Li,
On 10 July 2000 at 06:58:33 GMT -0700 (which was 14:58 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
of "(SOT) Re: ZDNet Shareware Awards":
ML> I appreciate TB gives me the power to control exactly how my
ML> folders should be lined up, but I think auto-sorting should be
ML> default, or at least there should be an option to allow
ML> auto-sorting.
Perhaps. For my own use an alphabetic sorting of the folders would
make no sense. I maintain a large and hand honed tree of carefully
arranged and nested folders.
ML> ... I just couldn't figure out a way to set up a filter that could
ML> be applied to various folders without moving the messages (to
ML> assign colors to some messages, e.g.).
This usefulness of this belies the simplicity of the request. As
filters become more and more capable, so tying them to moving mail
makes less and less sense with each enhancement. Hey - Stef and Max -
how about it? Time to cut that umbilical yet?
ML> I could be prooved wrong, but I think people attracted to TB are
ML> mostly looking for their 2nd (3rd, etc.) email clients...
I don't think you will be (proved wrong).
>> True. But without even going into TB!'s more powerful
>> features, it's default, very basic, design philosophy of control
>> over what one is sending to the recipient is a great one. What you
>> see before you hit the send button being what the recipient will
>> get, combined with effective means to optimize this are
>> distressingly rare qualities among the clients out there including
>> the leading ones. In fact the leading ones, ie, OE, Outlook and
>> Eudora fall flat on their faces in this regard and hence I avoid
>> them like the plague.
ML> That's an interesting observation. You mean OE, Outlook and Eudora
ML> can't format the messages correctly? Are you referring to HTML
ML> mail? Could you be more specific?
I can shed some light. You don't have to look as far as HTML mail.
Because these other clients default to using variable pitch fonts any
layout you may give a text message hasn't a single chance of turning
out looking as you sent it when it arrives at the destination. Not so
TB text mail. IMNSHO when it comes to text layout, TB is one of (if
not _the_) best there is. There are another couple of newbie
down-sides to that aspect of TB's functionality that usually elicit
howls of derision: fixed fonts, virtual space and no discernable
paragraph delimiters (CR/CR isn't intuitively obvious). Sadly these
aspects are compulsory for the plus-side plain text formatting
capabilities. I believe it's a good trade off - it's not always a
shared opinion, however (and I don't want to get "into one" with any
one over it).
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Cheers,
.\\arck
Marck D. Pearlstone, Consultant Software Engineer
Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA
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